Episode 135: Utilitarianism and Moral Identity
Very Bad Wizards
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The Ethics of Consequences
Williams: Some of the weaker attacks at being non-consequentialists are often sort of like this, some sort of strawman view that you don't care at all what the consequences would be. And he tells the story about how that makes sense that consequences would creep their way into ethical theory in a very natural way. The minute you realize that these are not God-given rules to never be broken, right? The minute you accept that, you have accepted a world in which you can make modifications to those rules or make exceptions. Those exceptions will be motivated by a knowledge of what the consequences are.
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